Text Compare Resync Improvement

Hello Michael,

It depends on your specific files, but increasing the Skew Tolerance and other alignment settings in the Text Compare's Session Setting's Alignment tab can often help.

If you manually use the right-click Align With option, this will "push" down the rest of the comparison; does this help?

Also, the option to "never align differences" only affects Important text. If you define Everything Else as Unimportant, and define the specific text to be Important, it will then only align when the specific text matches exactly.

Aaron,
Let me first say that I absolutely love this tool. I certainly did not mean for my posting to reflect any negative connotation at all.

I will try to play around with the "Align With" functionality and see if that works for my situation. Do any hidden attributes that are set with the use of this option get saved with the session settings so if one comes back to compare the same two files files the alignment tweaks get reapplied the same way?

Michael Karas - Carousel Design

The "Align With" settings are not saved with session settings. If you close BC and open the session again, you'll have to redo the "Align With".

Unfortunately, Chris is right and that we do not currently save the Alignment itself as part of the session, only the settings. If you can find a combination of settings that automatically aligns things as you expect, then those settings can be saved and reapplied for future comparisons.

The first thing to try is to increase Skew tolerance or try the Alternate method. Either of these may provide immediate and easy improvements to the alignment.

Is there a key phrase in your specific files that is more important than the other phrases? Something that has to be an exact match for the two lines to align? If so, you can to define it as the grammar element, then mark only it as Important (everything else as Unimportant). With Ignore Unimportant disabled, the unimportant differences will appear Blue but still be considered differences; but the Never Align Differences alignment option will only apply to the Important text (black if it matches, red if it does not).

If you need any help setting this up, it may help to post or email us specific example files. If you email us, please include a link back to this forum thread for our reference, the sample files, and your Support.zip from the Help menu -> Support; Export.